Career highlights

• Implemented diverse storage architectures
• Virtualized Architecture Design and implementation.
• Managed budgets yearly/quarterly.
• Act as liaison between Business and technical departments to make the project/s successful.
• Keynote Speaker at Storage Conferences SME
• Managed several Multi-petabytes projects from concept to implementation

Latest Projects

• Backup as a Service using Cloud Technologies CloudStack, CleverSafe and Panzura
• Coordinated and Implemented VMWare implementations for Storage Consolidation
• Architected and deployed multiple Database Projects to consolidate workloads.
• Research and present alternative solutions for Data Analysis from SQL to NoSQL
• Lab Design and Implementation for Hadoop/HBase.

Confidential

Sr.Storage Engineer

• Provide support to global managed accounts in the Americas Region
• Develop monthly capacity and performance reports for customers worldwide.
• Analyze current storage architecture and validate configurations
• Perform consulting architecture advice and assessments for local accounts.
• Develop blue prints and deliverables.

Confidential

Storage Integration Engineer

• Provide support to global managed accounts in the Americas Region
• Develop monthly capacity and performance reports for customers worldwide.
• Analyze current storage architecture and validate configurations
• Perform consulting architecture advice and assessments for local accounts.
• Develop blue prints and deliverables.

Confidential

Architect Consultant 'Storage'

• Designated a Disaster Recovery solution for Ross's Supply Chain distribution centers using Hitachi USPV-M in combination with HUR and brocade 7800 extension switches.
• Documented blue prints for corporate current environment, and backup policies.
• Performance analysis planning of current Network SAN production environment composed of Brocade 48000 directors. File Servers migration to NAS Network Attached Server NetApp V series.

Confidential

Architect Consultant

Designed and implemented a large Virtualization deployment for a large financial institution based on EMC solutions platform. Worked on consolidation, data replication for Disaster Recovery. Created blue prints as well deliverables for deployment. Managed multiple projects for different stages of the project. Provided advisory in conform a standardized and unified architecture based on RM-ODP- Oxley.

Confidential

• Worked in different levels of management and administration providing the Medical Center with latest technologies for Storage and Backup methodologies. Managed different projects and groups, as I was heavily involved with EMR Electronic Medical Records and Data Warehouse implementations as well Disaster Recovery deployment.
• Supported a storage architecture for Lotus Notes for the entire Medical Center 10000 users
• Deployed different migration projects for Storage and Database applications. SQL Server- Oracle DB2
• Increased Production Systems Uptime from 75 to 98
• Provided monthly reports for Capacity planning and performance utilization.
• Managed Annual budget and yearly maintenance contracts.
• Deployed a Centralized NAS for the entire medical center.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

My duties were mainly support B2B companies in the Internet domain. I provide solutions in the areas of storage with support on performance, capacity planning, and consumption. Other duties were to ensure that customer learn to utilize management tools on new acquired EMC products. I participated in several designs for large Data Center implementations. As a System Engineer the main challenge was to work in consolidation projects, which gave me the exposure to deal directly with all levels of the customer's management chain.

Confidential

Systems Architect

Designed and implemented a web server's farm based on UNIX Sun servers attached to SAN storage, using EMC Clariion. Dialpad was a startup company that provided free VOIP Voice over IP over the Internet. The web servers provided the interface to make free phone calls in which the client would download a Java applet. I mainly supported Solaris and Oracle. I was also responsible for the Data Center management and daily operations

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Worked in different shifts on a 24x7 pager. I mainly supported UNIX, Linux, and Windows Servers.
• Other duties were heavy scripting for automation and Servers farms maintenance resolve tickets generated by NOC operators, and installation of new servers.
• Performed administration and backups for Oracle and MSSql productions Servers.
• One the biggest challenges that I worked with at this company, was to coordinate the NOC operations from West to East coast. I was exposed to different levels of systems administration and policies, which we had to automate thru scripting using Monitoring tools.
• Unix Administrator Quote.com Mountain View, CA 1998 to 1998
• Supported UNIX web production Servers farm on a 24x7 environment. Support for Solaris and Windows servers. Escalate tickets to third level support. Worked on a rotated schedule.

Technical skills Expertise

• Solid understanding of storage technologies: Mid-Tier to Enterprise
• Hitachi- NetApp-3par-IBM-DataDomain, EMC, Flash Array Technology etc/
• Cloud /Object Storage Technologies
• Ceph- CleverSafe/Panzura /Apache Hadoop
• DBMS
• Solid understanding of DBMS, requirements and implementation including Oracle, MSSQL Server, MySQL, DB2 Performance Analysis
• Networking
• Solid understanding of FC-ISCSI-FCoE-NFS
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP architecture
• Large NFS Storage deployments for VMware
• Experience in Storage over SONET. DWDM and Dark Fiber for Data Replication
• Tools/Programming/management
• Solid understanding and usage of MS Visio, MS Project and Excel
• Scripting/Programming: Shell, SQL, C, and Java REST/API implementation JSON, JavaScript
• Eclipse and NetBeans Framework